RESEARCH-What is the purpose of a title sequence and film opening?

What is the purpose of a title sequence and film opening?


The main purpose of a title sequence and film opening for a film is to establish the mood of the film to the audience. Films use a number of different elements to set the mood of the film depending on the film’s genre and how the director and producers want the audience to feel at the begging of the play to enhance the narrative. Although all film openings and title sequences are different depending on the film there are some common denominators in which we saw when analysing some in class. These typical elements that are used in most film openings and title sequences will be a good basis on where to start in deciding on how our title sequence will be and how we begin to set the mood of our film.


In all of the films’ opening title sequences that we analysed, and probably all that I have seen, we saw images or video related to the film but not always necessarily part of the narrative. I feel this is a crucial part of a film’s opening title sequence as it gives the audience something to except from the film. Most of the films’ opening title sequences had a soundtrack that was related to the genre, credits of the producers and makers of the film and the actors and the title of the film. I feel all of these elements of the films’ opening title sequences really do all help to create the mood for the film and allow the audience to get in the right mind set to completely emerge themselves in the narrative of the film which is why I believe that it is necessary to use all these elements with our group’s film opening title sequence.